Morality Quotes · Page 31

“It is easy to sit up & notice. What is difficult is getting up & taking action.”

— Al Batt

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

— Andy Hargreaves

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

— Erica Jong

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

— Bertrand Russell

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

— Ayn Rand

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

— James Anthony Froude

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

— Brandon Sanderson

The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and…

— Pat Buchanan

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to…

— Michael Pollan

If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the…

— Baron de Montesquieu

If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or…

— Jaggi Vasudev

The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain…

— Jean Piaget

“The world is going to turn upside down in a way that the honest man will live uncomfortably -- while the dishonest…

— Suzy Kassem

“That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't…

— Ayn Rand

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so…

— Charles Carroll of Carrollton

My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then…

— Lauryn Hill

When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence…

— Adolf Hitler

I liked Bugs Bunny. He was pretty good. He's annoying as a duck and he's anti-proletarian. Daffy Duck I couldn't see what…

— Russell Brand

“If words come upon our minds, we should express them in order to free ourselves from high anxiety.”

— Saaif Alam

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

— Rush Limbaugh

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do we fulfill our obligations by being practical all the time?”

— James Plunkett

You have to do what is right for yourself, nobody else is walking in your shoes.

— Anonymous

“Love is our most basic human value and also our highest potential.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.”

— Mencius

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

— Patti Smith

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

— Simon N. Patten

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

— Charlotte Bronte

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

— Charles A. Dana

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

— D. H. Lawrence

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

— Karl Kraus

Never concede to evil… When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

— Anonymous